(The Middle Sq.) – Seattle is the seventh greatest metropolis within the nation to boost a household, in keeping with WalletHub.
The private finance web site’s rankings have been decided by evaluating 182 cities throughout 46 key metrics, together with housing prices, the standard of native faculty and well being care programs, and leisure alternatives.
The common American strikes almost a dozen instances in a lifetime, in keeping with the WalletHub report.
“Shifting could be a signal of alternative, corresponding to a brand new job or long-term wealth accumulation, however folks may transfer due to instability corresponding to foreclosures or job loss,” the report notes. “Within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, households will possible be in search of cities that present essentially the most security and have the bottom unemployment charges.”
WalletHub analyst Jill Gonzalez defined Seattle’s excessive rating as a family-friendly metropolis, regardless of the Emerald Metropolis seeing an explosion in homelessness, crime, and dependancy during the last a number of years.
“One of many causes it ranked so excessive is the truth that it is a bike-friendly metropolis,” Gonzalez instructed The Middle Sq. in an e-mail. “It additionally has a low share of uninsured kids, lower than 1.5%, a excessive parental go away coverage rating, and essentially the most summer time studying alternatives per capita.”
Fiscal issues additionally performed a job in Seattle’s No. 7 end.
“Different components that contributed to this rating relate to the monetary facet, and embody having the bottom unemployment fee and a low quantity of debt per median earnings,” Gonzalez famous.
Different Washington cities made WalletHub’s rankings as nicely, together with Spokane (No. 70), Tacoma (No. 83), and Vancouver (No. 98).
The ten greatest cities to boost a household:
1. Fremont, California
2. Overland Park, Kansas
3. Irvine, California
4. Plano, Texas
5. Columbia, Maryland
6. San Diego, California
7. Seattle, Washington
8. San Jose, California
9. Madison, Wisconsin
10. Scottsdale, Arizona
The ten worst cities to boost a household:
182. Detroit, Michigan
181. Cleveland, Ohio
180. Memphis, Tennessee
179. Birmingham, Alabama
178. San Bernardino, California
177. Newark, New Jersey
176. Fayetteville, North Carolina
175. Shreveport, Louisiana
174. Jackson, Mississippi
173. Augusta, Georgia